Beyond My Years: Teaching with determination, starring Khamphet Pease

About this episode

This episode features Khamphet Pease, a STEM educator who shares her experiences as a refugee and the challenges she faced regarding education and career ambitions for women.

Hi Science Connections listeners! Here’s an episode from Amplify’s new podcast, Beyond My Years, that we think you’ll like. It features an incredible STEM educator from San Diego, California, named Khamphet Pease. Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres learns all she can learn from the life stories and lessons of Khamphet Pease. As a refugee from Laos, Khamphet shares the difficulty she experienced navigating a home culture that did not encourage education or career ambitions for women. ...

People in this episode

Host: Ana Torres

Guest: Khamphet Pease

Topics covered

• STEM education
• refugee experiences
• women in education
• cultural challenges
• life stories

Keywords

• STEM
• education
• refugee
• women
• cultural challenges
• Khamphet Pease
• Ana Torres

Mentioned in this episode

Places: San Diego, California, Laos

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